Lisa and Susan Milner
Susan is a broker (our equivalent of a licensee) in Cape Coral – Florida in America.
Hi Susan
Thank you for joining us today
I have been wanting to catch up with you for some time as I have been really interested in seeing what other real estate agents are doing all over the world.
It’s a crazy time at the moment as we are going through Corona Virus lockdowns etc.. but I wanted to find out pre CV, during CV and how you think post CV how your market will hold up.
Firstly… I want to cover some US terminology
A broker
In escrow
Closing
Do you call a homeowner a vendor?
I would also love to discuss licensing, Board of Realtors, MLS etc
Zillow – your thoughts on portals
Some stats… there are less than 100,000 real estate agents in Australia and over 2 million agents in America…
In Susan’s area – There are over 20,000 real estate agents within a 30 mile radius.
- Tell me about your agency
How many staff you have in your agency..
What’s happening in your office PRE, DURING AND POST CV - How are you all working from home? How have things changed – how have you adapted. What are you doing different? Technology?
- Please describe your area – Average selling price – Demographics.. Etc..
- What’s your average commission – is it regulated? Explain buyers and sellers and how they pay commission to an agent
- You’re in my group Lets Talk About Real estate…. What do you know as differences between Australia and America in real estate?
- What is a short sale? Susan completed literally hundreds of these type of transactions when the market busted in 2008-2011.
- Foreclosures / mortgagee sales. What happens with foreclosures there? What happens when people can’t afford to pay the mortgage?
- Packing a gun! I find it so unusual to discuss this in the American real estate groups.
Susan has a YouTube Channel you can subscribe – HERE
Here is a little more about Susan – HERE
